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Assoc. Brit. I.R.E., 1946. Emigrated to Canada. Briefly designed and manufactured radios, phonographs, etc. with Breadner Company Ltd.
Then, after a number of career changes, studied at Carleton University and York University.
Obtained Ph.D. in psychology. Lectured at York University and Seneca College. Served on the Boards of numerous agencies in and around Toronto.
Engaged in private practice. Retired 1988.
* probably on loan to RIN, although Apr 1946 Navy List has him listed as RINVR

* Special Branch officer employed on staff,
etc., duties ashore, who has not received any training of an executive
nature

(07.1945)

-

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

A grandchild writes: "Initially
served at Hong Kong and Singapore 1939-1942. He
worked in naval intelligence for FECB (Far Eastern Combined Bureau), Colombo
1942-1945. He is now
listed on the Bletchley Park veterans website as well."

Lambert,Wilfred
Son of William Taylor Lambert (?-1926), of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Married (07.09.1929, Kingston-upon-Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of
Yorkshire) Irene May Lowe (16.02.1903 - ), daughter of Norman Carter Lowe, of
Kingston-upon-Hull; one son, ond daughter.

26.09.1903Kingston-upon-Hull, Sculcoates district, East
Riding of Yorkshire
-
08.05.1970Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire

Staff Officer (Intelligence), Dover Command [HMS
Lynx][1945 with a detachment accepted the
surrender of two German U-boats in Dover Harbour]

1945

-

(10.1945)

Commanding Officer, HMS Louis (frigate)

(04.1946)

HMS Cooke (?) *

After the war he had command of a squadron
of destroyers in Victoria Docks, Hull prior to being returned to the
USA. Started the Humber Division RNVR in
Hull with name of HMS Galatea, being in command 1946-1958; RNVR ADC to HM the Queen,
1955-1957.

MI6 - clandestine operations in Albania 1949-50;
journalism and broadcasting in Greece 1951-55; led archaeological underwater
survey in Crete 1955; Clare College, Cambridge 1955-56; Head of Greek-language
service, BBC World Service 1957-61; farming Buckinghamshire 1961-70;
Conservative candidate in 1964 and 1966 General Elections; business consultant,
writer, translator in Greece 1969-2003; Consultant to the President of the
American College of Greece, Athens.

811
Squadron FAA [HMS Biter (escort carrier)][while flying a patrol in a Swordfish Mk.II shot down by gunfire from the German submarine U230, the aircraft exploded on hitting the water killing all on board]

Teacher, author and publisher. He first published a children's reading series in England in 1950 and then after migrating to Australia in 1951 he taught
and then set up his own publishing firm from 1956 to his death in 1978.

served at
Singapore & was captured in Sumatra and spent the rest of the war as a POW
in Japanese captivity

BSc CEng AMIEE. Joined the engineering and
electrical machinery manufacturer Bruce Peebles Ltd in Edinburgh as a young
graduate. He pushed for a posting, and in 1951 went to the Manchester-Sheffield
railway electrification project. The building of the experimental fast-breeder
nuclear reactor at Dounreay saw him moving to Caithness in 1956 to take charge
of the establishment of power-generating equipment for the station. He completed
his professional life as lecturer in electrical engineering at Robert Gordon's
Institute of Technology in Aberdeen, now Robert Gordon University. Polymathic laird of a small
estate in Aberdeenshire, the origins of which lie in the 13th century. Coull
Castle, now administered by Historic Scotland, was the stronghold and principal
seat of the Durward family. Freeman City of Glasgow (Inc. of Hammermen), Freeman
of Berwick on Tweed 24 May, 1947, chm N.E Region, Roy Scottish Forestry Soc
1961-67, Sec NE Regn. Scottish Woodland Owner’s Associate.

observer,
816 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] [Swordfish I W5908 was hit by AA fire while
minelaying off Le Havre & crashed on seashore. S/Lt. R.H. Poulson was killed.
S/Lt. R.B. Long and Ldg.Airm. D.H. Dickens survived and were made PoW (missing,
later reported to be POW)]

* In the 04.1940 Navy List shown under HMS Iron
Duke (battleship; training ship), but he never actually served on it
** In the 06.1943 Navy List still shown as such.
Date of appointment (erroneously) given as 05.05.1941, which is a mix-up with
A.J. Lowe.

Randal's brother Brian remembers: "While he was
in HMS Gentian in September 1941 HMS Gentian and HMS Myosotis, of which my
brother was commanding officer, were part of the escort of a convoy from the UK
to Gibraltar which HMS Vidette with me on board joined from Gibraltar and we all
met up in Gibraltar on my birthday. When Randal returned to Devonport in HMS
Helford in December 1945 I was there in HMS LST 363 and we hoped that my brother
Gerald Peter who was in HMS Burghead Bay somewhere in the English Channel would
also join us in Devonport but it was not to be."